Art & Ecology : The forest for the trees

Vertical sounds and horizontal noise

MAYA Pedal

Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan NGO based in San Andrés Itzapa. With the help of Bikes not Bombs (Boston) ,twice a year a shipping container of bikes in varying degrees of disrepair are sent to San Andrés to be repaired sold or re-purposed into pedal powered machinery. During the course of a three month stay, I was reconstructing old and used bikes into new refurbished ones, welding frames for several variations of 'bici maquinas' and teaching local youth how to fix their own bikes. In my free time I studied Spanish in neighbouring Antigua, played street basketball with locals and took a few bike trips around Guatemala.
http://www.mayapedal.org/

Photography: Dystopia/Displacement, Californiahhh...etc

Pedestrian Bridge Proposal: Yale Town

 Pedestrian bridge proposal connecting Yale Town to False Creek in Vancouver, BC:
50%+ green space
Pedestrian path
Bike path
Local gathering points: ie: children's park, public amphitheatre, framers market

crafted to scale, I used moss from a  hobby shop to highlight some of the green space. In the foreground an amphitheatre  in the background a sheltered market space.

Google 3D:Sustainable Housing and Design

Low Income Student Housing: Shipping Container Proposal

The proposal called for 65+ unit concept to be constructed on a large parking lot complex on Granville Island in Vancouver. 50% greenspace, including a commons area.

Dusting off the old files....

It's amusing, when I was asked to actively engage in blogging again for a digital print media class I'm currently taking, I was a little concerned that I didn't have a legitimate body of work to present. Low and behold I've documented almost all of my work over the years. Perhaps it was bit of reluctance on my part to post most of it. I'm still not quite sure what is blog worthy or not, never the less I'll be slowly filtering through it over the course of the semester. Some concepts or interests I've explored and continue to explore:
Sculpture
Design
Architecture
Sustainability
Environment
Culture/Ethnicity
Community
Photography
Print Media
Drawing/Sketching
Tattoos
Mysticism
Alchemy
Ritual
Food

Litho, Woodcut and Chine colle : Evil minds

Faces were drawn on lithograph stone and printed on japanese paper, woodcut background carved on mdf, collaged faces with chine colle on cotton rag archival paper.

 Crying Liberty - digital litho

 Knives - dolphin transfer litho

My hand - litho crayon